“A poignant, historical journey through a virus’s outbreak and legacy.”- Conde Nast Traveler “Two distinct narratives intertwine ingeniously…The stories meet up to heartbreaking effect.” -New York Magazine It’s hard not to get drawn into this circle of promising young men as they face their brutally premature extinction.” -Newsday Conversations among her gay male characters feel very real - not too flamboyant, not too serious, always morbidly witty. “Deeply moving…Makkai does an excellent job of capturing the jaded, ironic and affectionately jibing small talk of a group of cultured gay friends in the Reagan era… a group of friends in a particular time and place with humor and compassion. And it’s right on target in addressing how the things that the world throws us feel gratuitously out of step with the lives we think we’re leading.” - The Chicago Tribune It’s remarkably alive despite all the loss it encompasses. “Symphonic… The Great Believers soars… magnificent… Makkai has full command of her multi-generational perspective, and by its end, The Great Believers offers a grand fusion of the past and the present, the public and the personal. “Busily Dickensian, her prose a relentless engine mowing back and forth across decades… missing no chance to remind us what’s at stake… Warmly dimmensional… Compulsively readable.” -The San Francisco Chronicle “Cultural revolutions of the past painfully reverberate in Rebecca Makkai’s deft third novel, The Great Believers, which captures both the devastation of the AIDS crisis in 1980s Chicago and the emotional aftershocks of those losses.” -Vogue “Makkai knits themes of loss, betrayal, friendship and survival into a powerful story of people struggling to keep their humanity in dire circumstances.” -People Magazine
“Engrossing…thrilling and beautiful to behold.” -The Boston Globe
“Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers is a page turner… among the first novels to chronicle the AIDS epidemic from its initial outbreak to the present-among the first to convey the terrors and tragedies of the epidemic’s early years as well as its course and repercussions…An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it’s like to live during times of crisis.” -Michael Cunningham in The New York Times Book Review Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award.Winner of the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Award.Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize.Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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